By Kevin McCauley
Collier’s magazine, which published its final issue on January 4, 1957 with a cover story on Princess Grace of Monaco, is back as a bi-monthly under ownership of JTE Multimedia of Berwyn, Pa.
The February re-launch issue has a cover story on Okinawa, 66 years after the biggest land-sea-air battle in history. It has a feature from presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on the “Habits of Liberty.”
A note from publisher/editor John Elduff promises an emphasis on health, wealth and happiness. “We thought of how we could revisit the parts of our past that bring us joy and happiness, while continuing to nourish the things that are on top of our minds when we raise a glass to toast or offer a prayer at dinner,” he said.
Elduff also promises to “bear witness to a staggering unemployment rate, rising rates of childhood obesity and economic turmoil.”
Peter Fenelon Collier established the magazine in 1888 as publication of “fiction, fact, sensation, wit, humor and news.” It carried writers such as Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, J.D. Salinger and Kurt Vonnegut. The magazine also published Upton Sinclair’s “Is Chicago Meat Clean?” that led to the Senate Meat Inspection Act of 1906.
A one-year sub to the re-born Collier’s goes for $29. |